Actually step 3 would be flicking the safety, making it just as fast as the other methods.

Honestly with stupid god loving, gun owning retarded shit kicking rednecks in Texas owning tons of guns, I don't think it should be a civil right when you have millions of cousinfuckers running around packing heat.

Only a small portion of handguns have external safeties...most of them is the hammer, or one built into the trigger, such as my Glock 26, above...